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China is slowly erasing Tibet's name (feddit.de)

submitted 11 months ago by 0x815@feddit.de to c/news@beehaw.org

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Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5651275

Original link: https://www.newsweek.com/china-changing-tibet-english-name-1843391

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's remarkable that Tibetan culture has been so tenacious that there's anything left of it today. If the government of 50 years ago had been able to exert the kind of control over its people that they do today, it's hard to imagine that it wouldn't have been fully eradicated by now.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

We're talking about the same Tibet where, throughout history, almost every single major government position has been held by a Tibetan, right?